My Ferguson Challenge

Hi Everyone,

So I started today after a week signing up and I started with $56. I've played Zoom poker today too and I won another $3. I most definitely have beginners luck or something. MadMojoMonkey, I appreciate your feedback and need some help? How do I post hands on FTR? You mention hand review, do you mean other players or my own? If you mean my own, how do I view a previous sessions hands on Pokerstars? Last but not least whats BTN vs Blinds? I will definitely search through the forms too look that up so please don't answer that yet.

You are right about one thing. I shouldn't just focus about the money. I should be reviewing my style and play. I think at the end of my sessions I should log how many hands I've played. How many flops I viewed and how many show downs did I win? If my win percentage is high then I know I'm doing something right.

The first thing I will read now is bankroll management. I know I can't but with this winning streak I feel like playing higher levels. I won't because if I do it will defeat the purpose of this grinding and learning.

Lets start the IPOD, listen to some Pearl Jam and start reading.

Originally Posted by PJfan10

MadMojoMonkey, I appreciate your feedback and need some help? How do I post hands on FTR?

I'm sure someone else can answer this for you. I never played on stars for real money, so I don't know how to get the hand history from stars. There should be some way for you to get a text file of the poker hand. Just feed that to the FTR hand converter (there's a tab at the top of the page) to make it readable.

Originally Posted by PJfan10

You mention hand review, do you mean other players or my own? If you mean my own, how do I view a previous sessions hands on Pokerstars?

I meant your own, but what I meant in the examples is not really relevant. That's just a list of brainstorming ideas for what you might set as a goal. Whatever goes on YOUR list is entirely up to you and where you are as a player. If you are brutally honest about yourself when you study, you'll be able to find your true weaknesses as a player.

I don't play on stars, so I can't help there. I'm sure you can google it, though.

Originally Posted by PJfan10

Last but not least whats BTN vs Blinds? I will definitely search through the forms too look that up so please don't answer that yet.

Originally Posted by PJfan10

You are right about one thing.

It's about time I was right about somethin'.

Originally Posted by PJfan10

I shouldn't just focus about the money. I should be reviewing my style and play.

That's the spirit!

Originally Posted by PJfan10

I think at the end of my sessions I should log how many hands I've played. How many flops I viewed and how many show downs did I win? If my win percentage is high then I know I'm doing something right.

Much as I love charts and graphs (and I do), this sounds like a complete waste of time that will get you thinking about crap that has nothing to do with making good poker decisions.

Originally Posted by PJfan10

The first thing I will read now is bankroll management.

It's a great first step, so I heartily recommend it.

Originally Posted by PJfan10

I know I can't but with this winning streak I feel like playing higher levels. I won't because if I do it will defeat the purpose of this grinding and learning.

Lets start the IPOD, listen to some Pearl Jam and start reading.

Oops my bad... is this just a masochism thing? I might have misread this post.